Ken’s Reviews > Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum > Status Update
Ken
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Chapter one is a tour of cubbies and specimen storage areas
as the author wandered unsupervised through the British
Museum of Natural History's stored collections.Closed to the
public is a "miscellaneous repository, a place of institutional
amnesia" known as Dry Storeroom No.1.
He sees the room as a metaphor for one's lifetime : a collection of sorts.
Like suppressed memories. "We are all our own curators."
— Aug 28, 2025 08:30PM
as the author wandered unsupervised through the British
Museum of Natural History's stored collections.Closed to the
public is a "miscellaneous repository, a place of institutional
amnesia" known as Dry Storeroom No.1.
He sees the room as a metaphor for one's lifetime : a collection of sorts.
Like suppressed memories. "We are all our own curators."
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Ken
is on page 280 of 335
Away for a while and picked it up at random. Reads like I never left.
— Oct 04, 2025 09:10PM
Ken
is on page 124 of 335
Can you say "segue " ?
Richard Fortey is the master of segue.......but in a good way .
A delightful read.
— Sep 05, 2025 09:21PM
Richard Fortey is the master of segue.......but in a good way .
A delightful read.
